The Free Association of Salish-Cascadia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Black Bloc Cadre with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, parental licensing program, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 12.431 billion Cascadians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government is primarily concerned with Education, although Environment is also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Duwamish City. The average income tax rate is 59.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Cascadian economy, worth 81.9 trillion Genesian Credits a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 6,591 Genesian Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Factories grind to a halt every time there is an election, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Salish-Cascadia's national animal is the Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Live and let live.